In the Kaiser's Capital

Dickie, James Francis

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Author:: Dickie, James Francis

Title:: In the Kaiser's Capital

Publication:: New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1912

Language:: English

Digitization:: Berlin: Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin, 2024

Scope:: 315 Seiten

Note:: "History of the American Church in Berlin" im Anhang

Keywords:: Berlin ; Geschichte 1871-1918 ; Kultur ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

Berlin:: B 184 Kulturgeschichte: 1800 -1918

DDC Group:: 900 Geschichte

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:109-1-15493784

Collection:: History,Cultural History

Location:: Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin

Shelfmark:: B 184/132

Copyright:: Public Domain

Accessibility:: Free Access

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Title:: Chapter V. Berlin legends

CHAPTER V BERLIN LEGENDS ON the front of a house in Wall Street there is an ancient stone tablet on which there is a figure of a man who is bending beneath a huge burden. The people have interpreted it in a peculiar way. Two maid-servants were talking to each other one day about lottery tickets which they had just purchased, when one said to the other, ‘“ Oh, Gusta, don’t be like the cobbler of Wall Street!” “ Why?” asked the other. “Do you not know that he pasted his lottery ticket to the door of his cobbler’s shop? It drew the big prize, and when he wanted to collect his money the ticket stuck so fast to the door that he was forced to lift it off its hinges and carry it on his back to the royal lottery office, so that he could show that he was entitled to it. You will see the picture of it on the front wall of his shop as a warning to everybody not to fall into such a mistake.” What does the reader think is the true subject of the large stone relief? It is Samson carrying away the gates of Gaza. Thus we may learn how legends sometimes arise. . Of the monuments in Berlin the noblest of them all, perhaps, is that of the Great Elector that stands upon the Electoral Bridge. The Elector is seated on a noble charger, and is represented in the costume

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